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Warstrider: This gigantic steel vehicle looks like a Colossal centipede. Its multiple segments and legs make it quite flexible. The vehicle can move at a speed of 40 feet and travel up anything but a completely vertical surface. Small arrow slits in the middle segments allow defenders inside to fire arrows or crossbows at foes outside (a total of nine archers have room to fire). If the warstrider is moving, the driver must use a fullround action each round to control it. Otherwise, the driver can control the “head’s” iron-mandibled mouth, which can make a +15 bite attack that inflicts 3d6+10 points of damage and has the improved grab ability (grapple +27). Alternatively, the driver can use built-in jolt ray emitters† (page 25) that fire from the warstrider’s “antennae.” These have a +10 ranged attack bonus. He can use both antennae in the same round (as a full attack action). The warstrider measures 100 feet long and 10 feet wide. It has an Armor Class of 12 (–8 for size, +10 armor bonus), a hardness of 10, and 1,000 hit points. It has room inside to carry 24 Medium creatures, including the driver and nine archers. It has a single reinforced steel door. Checks for chaotic failure are required no more than once per week. Special activation; Craft DC 45; Price 200,000 gp; Weight 200,000 lbs. X-Ray Viewer: This device is a flat box 1 foot square by 1 inch high. The box has handles on either side and a glass plate set into its center. When the viewer is pressed against a surface, the user can look through the glass to see what lies beyond the surface, up to a range of 20 feet beyond the viewer. The user can see as if she were in normal light—even if
there’s no light at all. For example, if she looks into a locked chest, the user could see clearly inside it even if it’s dark within. This device can penetrate matter based on the type of material: Substance Organic matter Stone Iron, steel, and so on Lead, gold, platinum
Maximum Thickness 10 feet 5 feet 3 inches Cannot penetrate
The user is 90 percent likely to locate secret compartments, drawers, recesses, and doors using an X-ray viewer, although the process is slow. The device can check only one 5-foot-square area per round. Switch activation; Craft DC 36; Price 70,000 gp; Weight 10 lbs.
Special Item Categories Some chaositech falls into very specific categories, depending upon the type of effects achieved or the way in which the device achieves them. These special categories are chaos attuning devices, demonic essence devices, magic attuning devices, malefic haunting devices, and mutation attuning devices.
Chaos Attuning While all chaositech is obviously attuned to the forces of chaos, some items exist only to interface with other items. These are called chaos attuning devices, for they normally
